# FUP ate my db

slayer@kaiwan.com (slayer@kaiwan.com)
Sat, 25 May 1996 15:01:05 PDT

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    At 02:40 PM 5/25/96 PDT, dg@dcs.st-and.ac.uk wrote:
    >I'd just like to point out a `small' bug in FUP... if you try and fileread() a
    >directory, it just keeps reading, and reading, and reading, and locks the
    >server up, and eventually runs out of memory and the server panics and dumps
    >db:
    >
    yeah I know, it also locks up if you try to read/write a file with ; or : in
    it... you could make a wrapper in $bf_fileread() (and all the other ones
    too) to check for that.

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